Thank you, Bilge Ebiri! Thak you for brightening this Wednesday and thus our whole damn week with this truly marvelous oral history of, as you describe it, “an irreverent, pratfall-heavy, non sequitur of an animated movie that so defied Disney’s painstakingly deliberate traditions, it’s hard to believe it actually…

The Hotel Normandie’s buzzing neon sign isn’t the only thing keeping Babak (Shahab Hosseini) and Neda (Niousha Jafarian) awake in The Night, Kourosh Ahari’s nerve-shredding new psychological horror thriller. After a night out with friends, the fraying couple find themselves beset by mysterious voices, frantic knocks,…

We all knew Kristen Stewart was going to be incredible as Princess Diana, and yet somehow we have managed to be absolutely floored by this first look at the actress in Spencer. Directed by Pablo Larraín—whose Jackie was instantly iconic—and based on a script by Steven Knight—who somehow made a compelling movie…

Attention, competitive Jenga stackers: A 12-year old boy from British Columbia has secured the current title of the world’s best builder. He is now your champion. This child, prophesied in the yellowed scraps of paper buried within Jenga boxes of old, has come forth to construct a 693-block tower atop a single,…

As years and years of internet mash-ups have clearly demonstrated, Jurassic Park goes well with just about anything. And, as a clip from last year shows, throwing Pee-wee Herman into movies like Uncut Gems can have fantastic, disconcerting results. We’re hardly surprised, then, that Pee-wee Park, a video that replaces…

It was announced in December that Warner Bros. will, in a shocking move, drop all of its 2021 movies on HBO Max the same day they’ll hit theaters. They’ll only be there for 30 days, sure, but that hasn’t stopped filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and studios like Legendary from fiercely criticizing the decision. Their…

Playing a comfortably adoring couple only makes sense for decades-old friends Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth, since, as Tucci put on on Tuesday’s Late Night, “We seem to not get tired of each other—and it’s funny because we’re both incredibly boring.” Now that might just be the shared camaraderie of a couple of…

Perhaps emboldened by the relative success of Netflix’s We Can Be Heroes—a semi-sequel to his 2005 film The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl—director Robert Rodriguez is looking to go back to his first aggressively colorful, kid-oriented hit series. According to Deadline, Rodriguez is working with Skydance Media…

According to The Hollywood Reporter, A+E Studios and ITV Studios America have tapped writer Michael Hirst (creator of Vikings and its upcoming Netflix sequel series, among other things) to put together a new TV miniseries based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The project will reportedly be a “closed-ended…

Robert Zemeckis’ live-action Pinocchio movie with Tom Hanks as Geppetto may have lost its theatrical release in favor of a straight-to-Disney+ debut, but that doesn’t mean Disney cares about the film any less. In fact, the studio has reportedly called on one of the stars of a previous live-action remake to join the…

History’s Vikings just recently ended a surprisingly successful six-season run (surprising because it was on History, not because of any specific faults the show may have had), but there’s no need for fans of pillaging and watching Odin supporters kill Jesus supporters to worry, because the franchise will live on with…

Looks like You’s psychotic yet occasionally romantic (in an exceedingly twisted way) hero/villain Joe (Penn Badgley) may have some competition next season. Deadline announces that Scott Foster Kelly, known for prominent roles on Greek and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will be joining the cast as “Ryan, a local television…

Back in May, when we first heard that Cate Blanchett was attached to star in Eli Roth’s adaptation of the Borderlands video game, we were a bit confused. Blanchett has done some dumb bullshit, sure, but the Borderlands games are on a totally different level of dumb bullshit that fully embraces how dumb the bullshit is…

On one hand, the idea of Pete Davidson and Glenn Close vibing during a video chat session is somewhat strange. One is a 73-year-old award-winning actor of stage, screen, and film, while the other is...well, he’s Pete Davidson. In any case, they’re besties now, judging from the newest entry in Variety’s ongoing “Actors…

Over the years, Mads Mikkelsen has played characters like a high-society, serial killing cannibal as Hannibal Lecter, a blood-crying, testicle-destroying Bond villain as Le Chiffre, and Cliff Unger, one of the most tortured soldiers in Hideo Kojima’s line-up of tortured video game soldiers in Death Stranding. In one…

Yesterday, the popular skateboard culture site Jenkem published a brief Zoom interview with Werner Herzog. The quick Q&A is barely three-and-a-half minutes long, but because this is Werner Herzog we’re talking about, it manages to somehow address the “mountains of Bavaria,” sexy Russian Orthodox choir music, the…

For everything 2014’s Godzilla had to say about ecocentrism and humankind being dwarfed by nature, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s MonsterVerse seems to be increasingly resigned to showing giant monsters kicking the ever-loving shit out of each other.

Crime Scene, Netflix’s new true crime anthology, aims to distinguish itself by devoting each season not to a murder, but to a place. Season one zeroes in on Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel, a hotbed of death, murder, and mystery that’s also housed two separate serial killers in Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger. Director…